Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2024 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. COMICS REVUE PRESENTS December 2024 by various; cover by Jeremy MacPherson America’s longest-running magazine of […]
Comic artist Sam Glanzman was born 100 years ago today on December 5, 1924. Sam Glanzman had a long career as a comic book artist mostly drawing war comics in the latter half of his career. He gained a cult following for his cartooning that included a number of respected comic book artists and creators. […]
A bevy of New Yorker cartoonists turned out for the launch of Alen McWeeney and Michael Maslin’s new book At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker. And what better way to celebrate a book of photographs and profiles than with a collection of photos taken at the event by way of Michael Maslin’s Ink […]
Jim Borgman Winter cartoons, Michael Maslin profiles Linda Finck and Ed Steed, Selected 2025 Free Comic Book Comic Strip Comics, Hearst Magazines and Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz house for sale, WEBTOON $1 Million Comic Strip Contest, and a Sandra Boynton Christmas. A collection of Jim Borgman snow cartoons Prepare yourselves. Winter weather has arrived in […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for November 2024 release (or so).Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. This is it! The Complete Library of Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse is complete!! For […]
The Daily Cartoonist, practicing the Fairness Doctrine, suggests some Third Party Candidates. All characters © the current copyright holders
Auctions featuring original comic and cartoon art and comic books. Occasionally a comic book collection of immense value goes public. Such is the case up Mike Peterson way. From Seven Days last month: Following the death in April of Vermont comic book retailer and collector Christine Farrell, her legendary collection is about to go up […]
Cartoonists for Kamala continues receiving and auctioning cartoon art. One of the latest is from Robb Armstrong where he revises a recent Sunday JumpStart. Robb rewrote the last two panels: From Mike Lynch via Antonio Marques we are treated to a four page informative article on “How An Animated Film Is Made” written by Jerome […]
Cartoonist and animator Bob Foster has passed away. Robert Michael (Bob) Foster November 16, 1943 – September 30, 2024 Word is spreading that Bob Foster has died. Bob spent his lifetime in a wide range of cartooning and animation jobs. Below is Bob’s resume from 2010. I first learned of Bob’s talents with his Myron […]
By future Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers creator from late 1966 or early 1967, during the height of the Vietnam War, comes a comic of the times: “Everybody Seems To Be Going Over To Viet Nam,” a three page story by Gilbert Shelton and Tony Bell first seen in Wonder Wart-Hog #1 (Winter 1967). The story […]
Sergio Aragonés at Weekly World News; David Ostow on TV; Grant Geissman, EC Comics historian; Behind the Scenes of Early Animation; Thumbs Up AND Thumbs Down on Firing Michael Leunig; and George Herriman Specialty Krazy Kay Original Art! Sergio Aragonés’ Weekly Comic for a Major Newspaper From 2005 to 2007 “MAD cartoonist Sergio Aragonés did […]
Happy 90th Birthday to Warren Sattler. Being born on September 7, 1934 entitles him entry to our Senior Strippers club. Warren was a comic strip cartoonist from 1960 working with Crockett Johnson on the reinvigorated Barnaby through the end of the 20th Century with King Features and Gil Thorp and Grubby. The comic strips Warren […]
Mike Lynch (with Art Bouthillier, Randy Glasbergen, Ted Goff, George Jartos, Bart Roozendaal, and George Trosley), Ed Steckley, Warner Bros cartoons, Flash Gordon comic book, AI, and (sorry) Scott Adams. The Aspiring Cartoonist: The Craft and Business of Gag Cartooning Mike Lynch has a very fine habit of pulling old cartooning magazines out of his […]
Being a collection of various items from a variety cartooning categories (kinda like the Reuben Awards). The splash page from a 1962 comic book story by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee appeared on Facebook courtesy Michael Gilbert and Jim Keefe riffed on it for his own purposes. From Mike Lynch comes a selection of Barnabas […]
Harold and the Purple Crayon, 1960s Popeye cartoons, 1972 Sergio Aragonés poster, Little Orphan Annie and Harold Gray, 2024 San Diego Comic-Con book. Crockett Johnson and Harold and The Purple Crayon Harold is the sole visible creator in his universe. The pages he inhabits are plain white expanses until he fills them: with simple objects […]